Human factors researchers are increasingly involved in the study of teams. This review and the resulting organizing framework provide researchers with a summary of team knowledge research over the past 10 years and directions for improving further research.

Crew resource management (CRM) training was introduced to the aviation community in 1979. Since then it has evolved and matured and is now being applied in a number of domains, including health care and offshore oil production. There is abundant literature resulting from research in the area, but there is no recent comprehensive review of the origins, current state, and future direction of CRM. The purpose of this chapter is to perform that review and provide the reader with an understanding of the research, practice, and training associated with CRM. We also provide a number of lessons learned based on the literature and our observations, as well as future needs of the community.

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Following this checklist will help to ensure proper design, delivery, and evaluation of CRM training — and ensure transfer of training to the job.

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This report documents the development of and accumulation of a set of reference materials covering the history of U.S. aviator selection from the inception of military applied flight to the present day. It presents the materials so that they may be applied as a reference database or as a complete digital library for use by researchers in the field. The two DVDs containing the referenced material herein are maintained at AFPC/DSYX.

This report presents the results from a review of a literature base of more than 200 publications in which eight were found to contain lists of Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics (KSAOs) for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) crew positions, either for the purpose of system design specification or for personnel selection. The report compares KSAO lists across these studies and presents a cross reference table for them. The report also surveys past efforts to establish KSAOs in anticipation of related developments and discusses the major likely sources and nature of future changes in KSAO demand for RPA operators.

The Army Research Institute Aviation Research and Development Activity successfully implemented the Multi-Track Test Battery (MTTB) and associated classification functions in 1988. The battery and functions have been used to assign flight students to their combat skills aircraft. The present program determined the applicability of the battery to prediction of student performance in flight training. Performance evaluation in training consists of flight phase grades and academic phase grades. In addition to these grades, Overall Average Grade and Overall Flight Grade were also predicted using Forward Stepwise Multiple Regression procedures. Stepwise Multiple Discriminant Analysis was used to investigate two additional measures, flight deficiency training setback and flight deficiency attrition.